Labor/Employment,
Government
Mar. 27, 2019
Fired Baldwin Park police chief wins $7 million verdict
The unanimous jury verdict underscores a trial marked by an unusual amount of evidence for gender discrimination cases, despite delivering less than half the damages requested by the plaintiff’s attorneys.
LOS ANGELES -- A jury awarded former Baldwin Park police chief Lili Hadsell $7 million Tuesday, finding unanimously her firing by the city was discriminatory and pretextual but awarding less than half of the $18 million she sought.
The unanimous verdict and brevity of deliberations, just 21/2 hours, underscored the unusually large amount of evidence for a discrimination and harassment case. Throughout the two-week trial, Hadsell's a...
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